Calibrating several key lunar stratigraphic units representing 4 b.y of lunar history within Schrödinger basin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 477, Issue , 2011, Pages 117-127

  O'Sullivan, Katie M ^a   Kohout, Tomas ^b,c   Thaisen, Kevin G ^d   Kring, David A ^e,f  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR MISSIONS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

CALIBRATION POINTS; IMPACT BASINS; LANDING SITE; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN BASINS; STRATIGRAPHIC COLUMNS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; VOLCANIC LITHOLOGY; VOLCANIC MATERIALS;

LUNAR LANDING;

BASIN; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOLOGY; LUNAR CRUST; MARE BASALT; MOON; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 80051729547     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2477(05)     Document Type: Article

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